A11y Cat: digital accessibility resources

A11y Cat: digital accessibility resources

#Typography
Accessible typography
Accessible typography
On this page we are going to look at some myths and facts about accessible and usable typography as relevant to APA Style. The main takeaway is this: There do not have to be trade-offs—you can have great, expressive, nuanced typography that also meets or exceeds all regulatory and functional accessibility requirements.
·apastyle.apa.org·
Accessible typography
Andika
Andika
Andika is a sans-serif font family designed and optimized especially for literacy use. It supports almost the complete range of Unicode characters for these scripts, including a comprehensive range of diacritics and a large set of symbols useful for linguistics and literacy work.
·software.sil.org·
Andika
APHont Font
APHont Font

PHont (pronounced Ay’-font), was developed by APH specifically for low vision readers. APHont embodies characteristics that have been shown to enhance reading speed, comprehension, and comfort for large print users.

The entire APHont Suite is available free-of-charge to qualified users for non-commercial purposes.

·fontspace.com·
APHont Font
FS Me Font
FS Me Font
When most of us go about everyday tasks, we take for granted the reading that’s involved, on instructions, labels and so on. For people with learning disabilities, reading is made much harder by certain fonts. FS Me is designed specifically to improve legibility for people with learning disabilities.
·myfonts.com·
FS Me Font
Good Fonts for Dyslexia (PDF)
Good Fonts for Dyslexia (PDF)
In this paper, we present the first experiment that uses eye-tracking to measure the effect of font type on reading speed. Using a within-subject design, 48 subjects with dyslexia read 12 texts with 12 dif- ferent fonts. Sans serif, monospaced and roman font styles significantly improved the reading performance over serif, proportional and italic fonts. On the basis of our results, we present a set of more accessible fonts for people with dyslexia.
·dyslexiahelp.umich.edu·
Good Fonts for Dyslexia (PDF)
Lexie Readable
Lexie Readable

Lexie Readable (formerly Lexia Readable) was designed with accessibility and legibility in mind, an attempt to capture the strength and clarity of Comic Sans without the comic book associations.

Features like the non-symmetrical b and d, and the handwritten forms of a and g may help dyslexic readers.  You can read more about the story behind Lexie Readable in the Kernel.

·k-type.com·
Lexie Readable